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The best thing Roy did as Avs HC was quit on the team when he did, which allowed them to hire a good HC and eventually move in the right direction. The Avs wouldn't have fired him so as terrible as the timing was, it actually ended up being a good thing in the long run. I don't really care about the speculated/rumoured scenarios on the personnel side because I don't believe it would've mattered too much if he was still the coach. Great player and one of my all-time favourites but also a very lousy coach.
However, he's entertaining and I like listening to him so I'd like to see him get another chance. Hopefully he has learned from his first stint and has taken the years away from the NHL to change and get better.
I mean Mackinnon still kinda plays wing now. In the D zone he doesn’t take the role of the center and he takes some face offs, but Landy takes more. So he’s more of a pseudo center.